Life of Edvard Benes, 1884-1948: Czechoslovakia in Peace and War

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This is the first biography of Edvard Benes, a key figure in the history of Czechoslovakia in the first three decades of its existence. The authors paint a colorful picture of his career, from helping Thomas Masaryk to found the state during the First World War through his tumultuous presidency during the Second World War to his death in the year Czechoslovakia became a Soviet satellite state.


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Edvard Benes was a key figure in the history of Czechoslovakia in the first three decades of her existence. He helped Thomas Masaryk to found the state in World War I; and in the 1920s he worked on foreign policy and was briefly prime minister before being elected president in 1935. His Presidency saw the loss of the Sudetenland at Munich in 1938, followed by German occupation in 1939, which forced Benes to form a London-based government-in-exile for the duration of the war. He lived to see a brief period of restored independence (1945-48), and died in 1948, in the year when Czechoslovakia became another satellite state in Stalin's Soviet Union.


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